As Florida grappled with another summer heat wave, unsightly scenes of brown seaweed have once again blanketed parts of the ...

In the open ocean, islands of sargassum create a rich ecosystem that ocean explorer Sylvia Earle calls “a golden floating rainforest.” Suspended by round “berries” filled with gas, the seaweed offers ...

A 5,000-mile seaweed belt lurking in the Atlantic Ocean is expected in the next few months to wash onto beaches in the Caribbean Sea, South Florida, and the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.

According to scientists who monitor the formation of sargassum in the Atlantic Ocean, 2023 could produce the largest bloom ever recorded.That's bad news for destinations like Miami and Fort ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – A giant floating blob of Sargassum seaweed, floating in the Atlantic Ocean, can be detected and tracked all the way from space.It is already 5,000 miles long and an estimated 13 ...

Headlines from various media outlets have painted a grim picture of a monstrous blob of seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean they say could blanket Florida's beaches and ruin the summer for millions. It ...

Ever expanded masses of seaweed are choking the Atlantic ocean and becoming a menace to beaches in Mexico and the Caribbean. The massive sargassum blooms are a threat to biodiversity, fisheries ...

Atlantic seaweed blob breaks record – and it’s about to get even bigger Sargassum covers the coast of Playa Lucía, Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo) ...

During the summer, vast, floating islands of Sargassum algae can blanket entire parts of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. The algae reached their largest extent on record in June 2018, forming a giant ...

Blooms of of smelly, toxic seaweed shattered records in May, growing to over 37 million tons and inundating beaches. If it’s not bad enough already, the amount of seaweed is expected to grow … ...